When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.

I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.

a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

[At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!